Man charged with rape after dorm room party

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Donald Grant Ward fell asleep in a bed inside a friend's dorm room, so when his friend's girlfriend snuggled up to him, he thought he'd have sex with her, according to the probable cause affidavit accompanying two charges of rape.

Ward, 19, told investigators he figured that the woman mistook him for her boyfriend based on how she snuggled up to him in the dark dorm room at Purdue University early Feb. 12, according to the affidavit.

So in the dark after a party in the dorm room, he made advances on the woman, and she responded. They had sex, and when the woman went to the bathroom after intercourse, she realized that the man in the bed was not her boyfriend when she returned to the room, according to the affidavit. She demanded he leave, police said.

Ward told police that several people crashed in the room after the party, but the woman's boyfriend, who was hosting the party, left earlier, according to the affidavit.